Media Contact:
Esteban Gil, Pacific Media Workers Guild | esteban@mediaworkers.org
Emily Plunkett Frazier, Clean Water Guild Organizing Committee | cleanwaterunion@gmail.com
The workers of Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund are proud to announce the formation of the Clean Water Guild, uniting employees of Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund as a part of The NewsGuild-CWA.
As the boots-on-the-ground force behind one of the nation’s founding grassroots environmental nonprofits, the work done by the staff of Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund is essential. However, Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund cannot enact change externally if its workers are not unified within and throughout the organization itself. It is therefore vital to the organization’s success in daily operations, and success in the wider environmental movement as a whole, that the workers apply the same skills utilized to safeguard the ecological environment in order to protect, nourish, and sustain their workplace ecosystem.
Ellie Zarrow, a Field Canvass Trainer with Clean Water Action in Philadelphia says, “I am organizing for a union at Clean Water Action because it is essential that we practice what we preach. Advocating for the power of the people, the importance of making our voices heard, starts in our own offices.”
“As an organization we talk a lot about how we support labor movements and the power of the people to make things change for the better,” says Maher Akremi, Chesapeake Coordinator with Clean Water Action. “Now we have the chance to live those ideals by supporting the Clean Water Guild.”
The Clean Water Guild is the next step needed to achieve the goals that this organization strives for. As such, the leadership of Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund is invited to continue standing tall in the legacy of uplifting people, action, and justice in voluntarily recognizing the Clean Water Guild as a national bargaining unit, with the support of both the Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild Local 37002 and the Pacific Media Workers Guild Local 39521, TNG-CWA.
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About The NewsGuild-CWA
The NewsGuild-CWA represents journalists, interpreters, and translators, workers at organizations dedicated to fighting for social justice organizers, and the staff of nonprofits organizations. The NewsGuild is a sector of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), which represents workers in telecommunications, and information technology, the airline industry, health care, public service, and education, manufacturing, and other fields.
We, the staff of Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund, have formed the Clean Water Guild to put the power back in the hands of the workers. Protecting our environment starts with fostering an ecosystem of sustainable working conditions and a culture of progress in both what we strive for and how we work. We are proud to become union siblings as a part of The NewsGuild. For more information, visit https://cwalocals.org/clean-water-guild.